Asylum-seekers are the subject of One Minute Festival, whose upcoming edition is held in partnership with the UNHCR. Professionals and amateurs can submit videos lasting one minute until May 31st.
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Following a season in Jordan, the photo exhibition ‘About Women’ is set to open on Tuesday in the Brazilian city, featuring work by Brazilian photographers and focusing on the female universe.
A show will open on Monday at the café of bookstore FNAC, in São Paulo, depicting the daily routines and struggles of female refugees in Brazil.
A Moroccan and an Iraqi will perform at the International Language and Culture Festival on the 27th and 28th this month. The event’s first Brazilian edition will feature participants from 16 countries.
Salem Nasser, a professor at Fundação Getúlio Vargas, will administer the course ‘A trip to the Middle East in 5 stations’ from March 14 to May 02 in São Paulo, about political and historical aspects of the region.
A designer, photographer, painter, engraver and sculptor, São Paulo’s Tarek Mourad takes inspiration from anonymous people to create his artworks. A resident of Beirut, he is getting ready to take his work to Paris.
The professor Mamede Mustafa Jarouche will teach a mini-course based on Arabic literature at the Social Service of Commerce’s Research and Formation Center.
The sixth edition of the competition ‘Brasileirinhos no mundo’ will choose the best drawing by a Brazilian expatriate child themed ‘What I learned at school.’ Entries will be accepted until April.
A book combining both genres, ‘The Syrian house,’ by Claudia Ferreira, brings readers the memories of Merched, who left his country with his family to rebuild his life around these parts. The author’s grandfather inspired the novel.
A Lebanese university’s publishing arm has released a collection of texts by political scientists on the interaction between the two regions. The contents are based on a colloquium held in Lebanon in 2015.
In 2015, schools in the state welcomed 8,278 foreign students, 174 of them Arab. Enrolment is open throughout the year and the school network supports the learning of the Portuguese language.
The federal institution will carry out a selection process to admit refugees to its undergraduate courses. Candidates are required to write compositions in Portuguese. Enrolment ends on Thursday (28).
Tania Saleh has just put out the tune ‘Algumas Imagens.’ The artist wants to build a following in Brazil and is considering making an entire album in Portuguese.
Murilo Meihy, professor of Contemporary History at Rio de Janeiro Federal University, launches work in which he portrays the culture of Lebanese immigrants through stories of his family.
